Awakening

5. Her?!?

❤️Amabel's P.O.V❤️

He looked like royalty. I don't know how I knew, but I just knew.

"This is my friend Archer," Nico said while looking at 'Archer'. "Archer, this is my friend who is also the sister I never had. Literally," he added. I just looked at him. "Anyways, Archer, this is Amabel Palmer."

He doesn't say anything.

He just sits there with his eyes practically out of his eye sockets. I decided to take him out of trance - or whatever. I knew that it wasn't because he found me lovely or ugly - I've been told to be in the middle.

"Nice to meet you Archer," I said. I balled my hand into a fist and hung it into the the air, grabbing his other hand and doing the same to it. I fist bumped him - my brothers and I invented it - while saying, "Fala lalala." I heard that in a play downtown. It was a great show. I noticed he was out of his trance when he replaced it with a confused look.

Then he went right back to his trance, mouth wide open, eyes practically out of eye sockets.

"She's Amabel?!?," he said looking at one of my closest friends, Nico. "The Amabel?!?" I wondered what he had to say when Nico butted in. "Yeah man, Amabel Palmer. I'm sorry that I've been replacing her name with 'she, her, and girl'. I don't get why you sound so surprised meeting her."

Archer looked at Nico once more. I sat down next to him, across from Archer.

"We've heard of the great Huntress. The one with autumn hair and fair skin. The one who helped in the war," he said turning his attention to me. "We've heard a lot about you at the palace. You're a living legend. They say you're an artist and a musician. A famous actor to many who know." I felt myself blush, but then I caught something. "Yes, those are all true about me, but did you say the palace?"

"Yeah, I did."

"Wait a minute." I leaned in so no one out of our table could hear. "You're the crown prince. Archer Matthias Swanson!"

"The one and only," he said smirking. He must get a lot of attention.

"How am I known at the palace?" I wondered.

"There's a lord that talks about you a whole lot and then there's the servants who talk about their home village and the smart Huntress." I knew it. "Of course he decides to talk about me. Why, there of all places?" I didn't realize that I said that aloud if it weren't for the staring I got from both the guys.

"Looks like I said that out loud," I said nervously.

"Why'd you say, "why, there of all places"?" Nico knew so I guess he decided to tell him. "Oh, cause little-miss-popular here doesn't even dream of going to the palace like everyone else does. She says she'd rather die of embarrassment than go there."

Archer looked at me.

"No offense Archer, but I don't ever want to go to that place. I get these feelings and I know there would be trouble if I went there. Sometimes I feel like something horrible happened that involved your family and the palace."

He shook his head. "None taken. My father is a horrible man, so I get were you got that. I'm just not sure about the thing involving my family. And you may call me 'your highness'.

I smiled.

"Okay, Archer, first of all I won't call you 'your highness' for various reasons and I know somethings off with your family, whether you know it or not." He looked surprised that I talked to him that way. "Okay then. You don't have to talk in a mean way."

"Amabel! Hurry! We need you!"

Ezekiel was at the door, barely poking his head in the bar. "It's already time?" He nodded. "Oh god! I'll be right there!" Zeke left running. I turned to the guys. Nico looked back at me. "We've got to go Archer, unless you'd rather go with us or just wait at home."

Archer nodded. "I'll go."

We quickly left grabbing our cloaks and zooming out the door.

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Hey guys. This was longer, but I'm not sure if it was interesting. I'll story to step up my game for you'll.

✔️MelsAlvarez✔️